That's funny. You should go ahead and write that software. I'm sure that would get people to switch to Linux. Preston Crawford said: > On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 05:32, duncan brown wrote: >> Preston Crawford said: >> > If I do, there's something fundamentally wrong with the software I'm >> > running. Either that or the software better be balancing my checkbook, >> > running my budget, setting up appointments for me, answering my voice >> > mail and returning phone calls per my instructions and looking up all >> > data I request via voice recognition. Oh, and it should carry on >> > conversations with me if I'm bored. Meaning, this kind of power means >> > the software better be doing a lot more than just bloating an already >> > bloated OS and adding a few minor software enhancements. Otherwise, I >> > don't see what Longhorn could do to justify these specs. >> >> uh, my friend had a compaq that did all of that... IN 1995. >> >> checkbook - check >> budget - check >> appointments - check (well, managing but not actively doing them, it did >> have reminders) >> voice mail - check >> voice recognition - she actually did have dragon dictate, or something >> similar > > I think you missed my point. What I'm saying is that with that kind of > horsepower the machine better have some kind of Artificial Intelligence > and be doing the above functions (which, yes, I can do also on my > machine and have been able to do since the days of my 33mhz Macintosh, > my first computer) without my intervention. Except by voice recognition > in which case I'm not talking about Dragon Dictate but rather me telling > the computer "yo, go balance my checkbook based on what I've bought > recently with these receipts. Scan them, then balance the checkbook. > Make me a pot of coffee too and I'll come back later and we'll chat > about Survivor." That's what I'm talking about. That's what the machine > better be doing with that kind of horsepower. > > Preston > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
